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graven image
noun as in golden calf
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She sat in her chair quite motionless, but her face had become like the face of some graven image.
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And poor Hannah, the maid, white aproned and capped, would stand behind Aunt Harriet like a miserable conscious graven image.
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Her voice was colorless, like the speech which might be expected from a graven image.
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Nance's gaze shifted to Molly, who might have been turned into a graven image, so still was she sitting.
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The photographer lit one cigarette on the end of another, but otherwise appeared as indifferent as a graven image.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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